Xceedium Inc., the leading provider of privileged identity and access
management solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced the
appointment of Steve Katz to the company’s Advisory Board. As a member
of the advisory board, Katz will utilize his extensive security
experience to help Xceedium
navigate the dynamic market and provide a nuanced understanding of the
risk management issues that large enterprise customers face today.

“Steve’s track record speaks for itself. He has extensive experience in
managing technology and information security risk for global
organizations, but more importantly, Steve has his finger on the pulse
of enterprise customers today,” said Xceedium CEO, Glenn C. Hazard.
“Xceedium is a customer driven organization and we pride ourselves on
bringing together the best and brightest. The addition of Steve to our
advisory board will help keep us laser focused on the key issues and
challenges that global customers are facing as they expand their use of
virtualization, migrate applications to the cloud and address security
and compliance across hybrid cloud architectures.”

Katz is a top-level business executive with over 30 years of extensive
experience in executive-level management. In addition to recently
helping to develop a new corporate-wide information risk management
program for Kaiser Permanente, Katz is an advisor to the CISO Roundtable
Network. In this role, he meets regularly with CISOs around the country
to discuss key issues and share best practices. Katz is currently the
owner of Security Risk Solutions, LLC., and previously held positions as
the CISO of Citigroup and Information Security Officer at JP Morgan.

“As enterprises look to take advantage of the cloud, Xceedium has
positioned themselves nicely as a leader in addressing the challenges of
maintaining proper security controls and meeting regulatory mandates,”
said Katz. “I see a lot of potential for the company and welcome the
opportunity to work with Xceedium as it continues its impressive growth
and maturation in the market.”

Xceedium solutions enable organizations to comply with security and
privacy mandates such as: PCI DSS, FISMA, HIPAA, and NERC CIP. The
company’s products provide industry-leading reliability, availability,
and scalability, and are the most highly certified products in the
market with designations including FIPS 140-2 Level 2, Common Criteria
EAL4+, and the U.S. DoD Unified Command Approved Products List (UC/APL).
For more information, visit: www.xceedium.com.

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